政治，公共生活与治理哲学博士

政治，公共生活和治理建立在杜克大学乃至整个职业的政治历史上的复兴之上。这种复兴使政治历史的旧界限崩溃了，注入了社会和文化历史的概念，方法和发现。现在，该领域最激动人心的工作是由于人们认识到政治是由各种各样的组织以不同的方式进行的，包括正式被剥夺了公民权的人，并且治理是通过众多机构进行的，包括许多不属于国家的机构，其中包括工会，行业协会，社团组织等等。在这个领域，什么是教师的共同兴趣是探索权力的运作方式：谁拥有权力，谁缺乏权力，为什么，如何行使，体验和谈判，以及权力的特征和分布随时间变化的方式和原因。
Politics, Public Life, and Governance builds on the current renaissance in political history, broadly defined, at Duke and in the profession as a whole. This resurgence has involved a breakdown of older boundaries of political history with the infusion of concepts, methods, and findings from social and cultural history. The most exciting work in the field now stems from the recognition that politics is conducted in distinct ways by a wide variety of groups, including the formally disenfranchised, and that governance takes place through numerous institutions, including many that are not part of the state, among them labor unions, trade associations, communal organizations and more. What unites faculty in this area is interest in exploring the workings of power: who has it, who lacks it and why, how it is exercised and experienced and negotiated, and how and why its character and distribution have changed over time.